On Saturday night, comedian Trevor Noah showed that “The Daily Show” is in more-than-capable hands when he takes over as the beloved comedy franchise’s host on Sept. 28.

The son of a black, half-Jewish mother and a white father, Noah, 31, calls himself a “racism connoisseur” and has joked that his birth was “a crime,” a true statement given his upbringing in apartheid South Africa.

During his hour-plus set at the Paramount Theater in Huntington, LI, he used the terror he felt during a traffic stop as a frame to examine tensions between black America and the police, and the lessons he tries to take from the deaths of Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown, Eric Garner and others to avoid becoming a victim himself.

Noah showed that, like his predecessor Jon Stewart, he’s adept at never allowing the seriousness of his topics to swallow the laughs.

He skillfully blended physical comedy, as in his depiction of staying safe by playing dead, with observations such as his comparison of the officer directing him off the road via a car-top speaker to “a really angry GPS.”

Musings on everyday life seamlessly dovetailed with his larger themes, such as his joke about the illogic of speed-limit signs: “I went 55 [mph], but then someone passed me. The sign lied.”

Noah, simply clad in sneakers, jeans and a black T-shirt, exhibited an infectious, fast-talking energy that never wavered.

Tackling the worldly and the personal, the comedian displayed an agile mind, a sharp wit and a global perspective unique in American comedy. He joked about the irony of a Muslim man outing him as a South African on a flight during the Ebola scare, as well as how his family failed to recognize his “Daily Show” hiring as more significant than his 11-year-old brother’s being named head of his student council.

Similar to John Oliver, Noah has the experience and the intelligence to reflect our country back at us.

In a routine about how US airports are alone in the world for their utter joylessness, he riffed on how the TSA should stand for “Take Smiles Away.” He ended that section with a brilliantly played bit, which earned him a massive applause break, about how potential terrorists could be talked down by employing more Arabic speakers, presenting a heated dialogue between two men that concluded with a potential terrorist meekly scurrying along.

The performance made it clear that, with regards to controversial tweets uncovered after Noah was announced as the “Daily Show’s” new host, his comedic talent makes him far more than the sum of those tweets.

If there was any apprehension among the crowd about Noah’s fitness for his new job, this show melted them away.

“My chest hurts because I was laughing so hard,” said self-described “political humor nerd” Stephanie Kane, of West Babylon. “I think he’ll be a good host, because it’s an interesting difference from Jon Stewart. Coming from another country and being mixed race, it gives him a cool perspective.”

“I thought he was amazing. There wasn’t one thing I wasn’t laughing at,” said David Winchester, also of West Babylon, who had never heard Noah’s material before this show. “He took things that everybody in this nation is so tense about, and made everybody laugh about them.”